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The operators of several South-Central Los Angeles board and care homes were charged Tuesday by the city attorney's office with numerous criminal health and safety violations--some of them "potentially life-threatening." The 40-count complaint against John Hunt Jr., 51, and two others involves a complex of six homes housing about 90 residents in and around the 12400 block of South Vermont Avenue. Five of the six were operating without a state license, City Atty. James K. Hahn said.

The operators of several South-Central Los Angeles board and care homes were charged Tuesday by the city attorney's office with numerous criminal health and safety violations--some of them "potentially life-threatening." The 40-count complaint against John Hunt Jr., 51, and two others involves a complex of six homes housing about 90 residents in and around the 12400 block of South Vermont Avenue. Five of the six were operating without a state license, City Atty. James K. Hahn said.

There were 226 fewer people this year with concealed-weapon permits issued by Orange County Sheriff Brad Gates than just four years ago, according to documents the sheriff provided Thursday to The Times. The decline from 501 permits in 1983 to 275 permits in 1987 came during a period in which Gates faced lawsuits seeking disclosure of permit holders' identities. "We . . . know some individuals have turned in their permits as the result of the courts making this information public," sheriff's Lt.